Thomas Ertman
Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 1990, M.A. 1985, B.A. 1981, Harvard University.
Office Address: 295 Lafayette St., Room 4110
Phone: (212) 998-8359
Email: thomas.ertman@nyu.edu
Areas of Research/Interest: Comparative/historical sociology; political sociology; social theory; sociology of the arts.
Bio:
For as far back as I can remember, I have struggled to understand why Europe--and especially Germany--left the path of peace and prosperity after 1914 for that of war and genocide. While an undergraduate, I thought philosophy might throw some light on this problem, but I found its answers too abstract. It was the intellectual dynamism of historical sociology in the early 1980's, open as it was to the latest developments in history, social theory and political science, that persuaded me that I could best pursue this question further as a graduate student in sociology.
Select Publications:
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Barrington Moore Prize of the ASA 1998.
"Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited." World Politics, April 1998.
Taming the Leviathan: Building Democratic Nation-States in 19th and 20th Century Western Europe. (In Progress.)
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition - can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on insights developed in historical sociology, comparative politics, and economic history, this book makes a compelling case for the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political development.
郭台辉:您所著的《利维坦的诞生:中世纪及现代早期欧洲的国家与政权建设》一书,甫一出版就引起相当大的关注,并在1998年获得巴林顿·摩尔奖。可以简单介绍一下这个奖项吗? 托马斯·埃特曼:历史社会学是介于史学与社会科学之间的一门新兴学科。由美国社会学协会历史社会学部颁发...
1、增加瞭dimension of state infrastructure,是點睛之筆。 2、基於character of local government來解釋regime,很有說服力。 3、state infrastructure與strong representative institution的齣現次序造就瞭英國和波蘭的不同命運。
评分本周第二本書瞭
评分比較曆史社會學的代錶作。對於不同類型國傢形成的原因做瞭精緻的分析。但遺憾的是,在政治科學傢看來,this is just a story, far away from political science.
评分Most comprehensive and insightful masterpiece of state formation theories
评分Ertman在方法上似乎既想討好那個求同求異法,又不想得罪那些偏重敘述的曆史主義,於是弄成兩個二乘二,當中還駁瞭自己一下,看著好糾結。
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